Re: gEDA-user: gschem, alert if symbols in schematic have changed?

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben Jackson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 02:02:15PM -0700, Yamazaki R2 wrote:
>> Yes gschem just replaces the symbol, no warning or anything.
> 
> Maybe gschem needs version control integration.  A use of a symbol would
> automatically check a copy into the repository for the current project.
> Symbols would never come from global sources, only embedded and local
> directories.  I know some people use a similar workflow already, but maybe
> we should automate it to encourage people.
> 

Quite some time ago Ales had proposed something (Ales, apologies if my 
memory of the details is not quite right) where the schematic would 
store a hash of the symbol.  Then it would be trivial to detect if a 
symbol on disk had been modified since it was instantiated.  This would 
also let you disambiguate which symbol you meant in case there happened 
to be 2 identically named symbols in your symbol search path.

-Dan



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